yeah, rick, that's a great one! didn't that appear in one of her songbooks? is my memory failing or wasn't there one of the two of them sitting on some straight back chairs inside a house, jamming together? the reason I mention "some memories for me" is because that particular songbook was really the start of some pretty heady days for me... after the last time I saw Joni... in Detroit... yeah, in '68... STAS came out and I'm sure that, like me, for those who were around and heard her live prior to that, it was extremely satisfying to say the least... (of course, in those days the only place you could hear it was on 'underground' FM radio) but for me this songbook brought on another whole new dimension... that ol' 'degrees of separation' thing... see, being her 'hosts' when she rambled into town to play, naturally we (the Cellar gang) tried to be there for whatever she wanted to do... of course she had to eat... so we dined her... she played a little pool... so did I... maybe a book store... a music store for strings... but the thing is, mostly what she wanted to do was play. a few hours of small talk and sight seeing and she'd start to get a bit antsy... and, sure enough she had that D28 nestled in her lap and was twistin' those keys. ...and for me, being the 'house performer'... ie: the most avid player around all the time, by default I became her 'sparring' partner, so to speak... spending many hours trying out stuff and jamming... for instance, she'd teach me a tuning and show me how she wanted to hear it picked, and then I'd lay down the rhythm guitar while she danced all over the neck trying things she heard in her head... at any rate, around the time I bumped into this songbook, I'd really gone through some changes... from folk to rock and blues... from living in the back of the coffeehouse to the commune... from dressing and looking like Gordon Lighfoot to dressing and looking a lot more like David Crosby or Jim Morrison. in other words I'd moved on to the music of Cream and Hendrix and Joplin and people like CSNY and eventually JT were fast favorites and I was drawn to try to learn some of their jams... that was my first JT songbook and there, when I opened it, was a pic of the two of them together... pretty sure I remember one of them both with guitars jamming cause I remember thinking 'wow, it wasn't that long ago she was jamming with me just like that!' wow... then eventually I came across that one of her sitting in the grass playing for Eric Clapton with Dave Crosby... then there was the one with Stills... the one with Nash... the one with Crosby... and on and on... after a while I got used to it but at the time I first saw that book was when it first hit me... cheers, pat NP: Just Like Me http://homepages.go.com/~badwolff/albums/album1/ -- rick wrote: >Hey Pat >Like this one? >Ranger Rick From: "P. Henry" >> if it's the same songbook I had there were several (well, at least more than one... you know how wishful thinking can color an old timer's memory) really nice shots of Joni in it. is this the same songbook? (hint, hint) are you sending any more scans? (hint) thanks for this one... it really does bring back some memories for me... :o) >> Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com
